A novel hydrogeochemical approach to delineate the origin of potentially toxic elements in groundwater: Sophisticated molar ratios as environmental tracers.
Euboea
Fate and transport
Groundwater
PHREEQC
Potentially toxic elements
R-mode hierarchical cluster analysis
Journal
Environmental science and pollution research international
ISSN: 1614-7499
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9441769
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Historique:
received:
15
12
2022
accepted:
14
05
2023
medline:
28
6
2023
pubmed:
20
5
2023
entrez:
20
5
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The occurrence, mobilization, and origin of Potentially Toxic Eelements (PTEs) in the environment is always a difficult research question that has not been fully addressed to date; solving this problem would be a major achievement for environmental science and pollution research, a significant scientific breakthrough, and an important contribution to environmental analysis and monitoring. The lack of a holistic methodology that uses chemical analysis to determine the origin of each PTE in the environment is the main motivation for this project. Therefore, the hypothesis tested here is to develop a scientific approach applied to each PTE to determine whether its origin is geogenic (i.e., water-rock interaction with dominance of silicate or carbonate mineral phases) or anthropogenic (i.e., agricultural practices, wastewater, industrial activities). A total of 47 groundwater samples from the Psachna Basin in central Euboea, Greece, were used and plotted on geochemical mole ratio diagrams (i.e., Si/NO
Identifiants
pubmed: 37209349
doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-27721-8
pii: 10.1007/s11356-023-27721-8
doi:
Substances chimiques
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Water
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
74771-74790Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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